Word: junked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What this country needs is a pushbutton to end all pushbuttons−to send the whole mess into one junk heap. The gadget-drunk public is the dupe of a gigantic industrial swindle geared to the plan of speeding the necessity of replacement. No more mechanical junk shall cross my threshold. I'm off for the hills, behind old Dobbin...
...drank themselves to sleep every night and went to bed with their socks on." But now he, too, has reluctantly begun to mellow. "I've lost the hop on my fast one," he said last week, "and I've lost the will to fool 'em with junk any more. I guess, really, I've outgrown this...
...farm problem by spending more and more money. So why don't they stop trying, before the city people rise up in arms?" Says Indiana Farm Editor (Indianapolis News') Frank Salzarulo: "It's time to quit being average or quit farming. Most farmers are willing to junk the program completely...
...morning early last month the 21-ton motor junk Pak Tang (Whits Surge) cleared the tiny South China coastal island of Tarn Kung and headed for Changchow. Aboard the Pak Tang were 35 migrant laborers who since early April had been building a breakwater on Tarn Kung. These were the proletariat of the "New China"-men who under the Nationalists had been schoolteachers, civil servants, army and police officers. They were all together by prearrangement. They had complained to their bosses that the three smaller junks in which they usually traveled made them seasick. As some of the 35 lazed...
...Tang's nine cowering crewmen to change course for Hong Kong and freedom. But despite all threats, the crew refused, and at last, in desperation, one of the mutineers took the helm. Luckily, before the morning was out the Hong Kong Marine Police spotted the drunkenly weaving junk, boarded her and took her into custody...